for median weekly earnings growth into the part associated with the wage growth ofpersons employed at the beginning and … end of the period (the wage growth effect) and the part associated withchanges in the composition of earners (the … tight job switchers get high wage increases,making them account for half of the variation in median weekly earnings growth …

: by offering a generous wage and by giving attention. Contrary to the traditional gift-exchange hypothesis, we show that … than egoistic managers do. In such equilibria, a low wage signals to employees that the manager has something else to offer …

We investigate the relationship between exporting, importing, and wage premia using a richmatched employer … set of worker- and firm-levelobservable and unobservable characteristics to the wage gap, and (ii) by controlling for … firm size and sales are, todifferent extents, important components of the wage gap both for exporters and importers …

plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to …

We use a linked employer-employee data set from Germany to estimate the wage effect of foreign-affiliates in East and … West Germany. In addition, the wage effects of the large number of West German affiliates which are located in East Germany …

collective agreements pay wages above the level stipulated in the agreement, which gives rise to a wage cushion between the … the wage cushion mainly varies with the profit situation of the plant and with indicators of labour shortage and the … business cycle. While plants bound by multi-employer sectoral agreements seem to pay wage premiums in order to overcome the …

spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on … control over the profitable employment of their human capital than wage employees. …

relatively general. Applying human capital theory, we expect higher wage growth for full-time educated auditors than for dual …